Re: Why does XCode 4 always open files up to maximum size?
Re: Why does XCode 4 always open files up to maximum size?
- Subject: Re: Why does XCode 4 always open files up to maximum size?
- From: Marshall Clow <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:46:23 -0700
On Mar 21, 2011, at 4:32 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
> On Mar 21, 2011, at 3:26 PM, G S wrote:
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>>> More of Xc4's unwillingness to support multi-window use.
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>> How do you figure? Opening in a separate window on double-click is the default, just like it was in Xcode 3.
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>> Applications are migrating away from the flotilla of floating windows for good reason: It's a mess. It was a lazy cop-out in which developers simply decided not to do any real design work, and shift the burden onto the users by making them herd windows around all day. Not to mention the counter-productiveness of trying to work in a UI that allowed all the crap on your desktop and other apps' UIs to show through the one you're trying to use.
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>> Give the Xcode team some credit for trying to actually design a proper UI instead of just bailing on the whole task. Whether the results are good is another debate.
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> I completely disagree. Multiple windows are a boon to productivity, and being prevented from using them hinders, rather than helps.
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> People are able to find a specific file much more quickly if they can incorporate a spatial reference for it (i.e. position on screen, and shape). All-in-one designs force you to remember the label associated with a file and find that in a list before you can get at it. They also prevent you from looking at multiple windows simultaneously ("all the crap" you refer to). It's easy enough to hide windows you're not interested in.
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> Sure, strictly speaking, you can open a file in a new window. But you can't get away from the all-in-one UI, and Xc4 treats separate windows as second-class citizens.
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> I want my file to live in a window. I want my apps (especially Xcode) to remember where I put it, and to go *there* whenever it wants to present that content to me.
We had that, 15 years ago.
I could open a window in BBEdit/MPW/CodeWarrior, and it would open exactly where it was where I closed it, scrolled to the same spot in the file, with the same text selected. This worked _across_applications_, btw.
Sadly, this was deemed less important than killing resource forks.
-- Marshall (curmudgeon)
Marshall Clow Idio Software <mailto:email@hidden>
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